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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to put up with acid rain from Buffalo, Harvard professors who can't handle it when we spell "colour" as it should be in the Queen's English, Bob and Doug jokes, my Gov professor who suggested invading Canada, mockery if our sentences should trail off with a tell-tale...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Oh, Canada, My Home and Wacky Land | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

...Spell KnUCkleheads...: As promised, Undergraduate Council chair David A. Aronberg '93 has appointed a public relations officer to help improve the UC's image. (In an editorial last month filled with parenthetical phrases like this, I poked a bit of fun at this idea, and at the entire council. I apologize abjectly to the selfless UC members who took offense...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: I'm Wasingerelemontic | 11/19/1991 | See Source »

...Beeves (Tom Hopkins), a hard-working but undistinguished mechanic who achieves remarkable success as a result of events which he considers as a result of events which he considers merely lucky. For instance, David managers to sell an extra drum of kerosene as a result of a late cold spell...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: The Show That Needs No Luck | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...funded education, while at the same time preserving a system of black colleges that both the President and the plaintiffs believe can play a useful role. If the Supreme Court rules that the states do not need to provide a remedy, these institutions will wither away. "A defeat will spell, legally, the beginning of the end for black colleges," says Chambliss. "They're hanging by fingernails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Black Colleges Worth Saving? | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...wouldn't use U.S. while running for the White House? (The patriotic initials were apparently the result of a bizarre clerical error at West Point, according to amateur historian Barbara Holland, author of Hail to the Chiefs.) Besides, Ulysses was hard to pronounce and harder to spell, and no one had ever heard of anyone named "Hiram" (his real first name...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: What's in a (Middle) Name? | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

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